Filmmakers

CIRCUIT #1

September 2007 - Eric Patrick  uses innovative low-tech filming methods to create visually stunning landscapes in his short film collection Ritualized Etchings: The Experimental Shorts of Eric Patrick.

October 2007 - Cynthia Hill explores the world of Mexican farm workers laboring at American farms under the H2A Guestworker program in her documentary The Guestworker.

October - November 2007 - Jay Craven  weaves together a thrilling North Country Prohibition era tale of high-stakes whiskey-smuggling, a family's mysterious past, and a young boy's rite of passage in his full length film Disappearances.

February 2008 - Socheata Poeuv  delves into her families tumultuous history and the world of violence in oppression that they suffered in during the Cambodian Genocide in her documentary New Year Baby.

March 2008 - Thomas Nybo & Simon Umlauf  tell the story of four Cuban hip-hop groups and how in the face of threats of jail and censorship they struggle to reveal the boundary of artistic expression in Castro's Cuba.

April 2008 - Cathy Crane glimpses into the life and mind of philosopher, trade-unionist, and mystic Simone Weil during her years of exile from Paris in the experimental documentary Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil.

CIRCUIT #2

September 2007 - Roger Beebe uses a number of experimental forms in his collection Four More Years to take a look at aspects of our contemporary world including the complexity of race, and the transformation of suburban space.

October 2007 - Andrew Garrison  documents the story of Project Row Houses--an art project that revitalized a community in inner city Huston, telling a story of artistic experimentation and personal transformation in his film Third Ward TX. 

November 2007 - Christopher Metzler  dives into the strange community that exists on the shores of the Californian ecological disaster that is the Salton Sea, running into Christian nudists, Hungarian revolutionaries, and other bizarre characters along the way in his film Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea.

February 2008 - Paul Festa  explores the diverse and powerful effects that music can have on its listeners in his experimental documentary Apparition of the Eternal Church.

March 2008 - David Redmon  tells the story of a woman who in the wake of Katrina converts her backyard into a tent city in which 10 displaced people live for 6 months in his documentary Kamp Katrina.

April - May 2008 - Jim Haverkamp brings to life an old-time murder ballad in Willow Garden, a dark fable about love gone wrong.